Grandma arrested for throwing 2-yr-old grandchild into well

The long arm of the law has caught up with a 55-year-old grandma identified as Aisha Ibrahim for killing her two-year-old granddaughter whom she threw into a well.

In her confessional statement, the suspect who was arrested by men of the Katsina State Police Command said she committed the crime at her place of residence at Karaya Fulani Camp in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state just to get back at the mother of the child who happens to be her daughter in-law.

According to Aisha who committed the crime after the child was left in her custody, she had severally been at loggerheads with her daughter in-law and had once advised her son to divorce his wife.

Aisha said; “I told my husband to tell his son to divorce his wife but he did not listen to me. My daughter-in-law is fond of insulting and assaulting me all the time and the only way I could pay her back was to tie her daughter with the rope and throw her inside a well to die so that she will equally feel the pains and agony I have been going through.

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“We have been living in peace as one big family before my son married her; I have 12 children and all of us are living in one compound; she cannot come from somewhere to destroy the family I have suffered for years to keep, it is unacceptable,” she explained.

The suspect however regretted her action and asked her creator for forgiveness; “It was temptation, I didn’t know when I did it, I can’t just tell but may Allah forgive me. Honestly, it was a wicked act that can never be accepted anywhere in the world.”

The incident was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Abubakar who noted that the suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigation into the matter are concluded.

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